{"id":86,"date":"2006-11-07T14:59:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T21:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-11-07T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T21:59:17","slug":"golden-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Golden Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the first hard frost, if there were still leaves on the trees &#8212; the big-leaf maples, my medlar, the quince and others &#8212; they turn bright, lemon-yellow.\u00a0 And they seem to rejoice in this last burst of color before the trees begin their hibernation.<br \/>\nDriving along on a day like today, when the sky is gray and dripping silver threads of liquid sunshine&#8230;\u00a0 the world more than glows, it radiates, it beams, it <em>hugs<\/em> you with its mantle of light.<\/p>\n<p>In a few more days, with the wind and the rain, the remaining leaves will have rusted to a burnt sienna, and then they will be gone, leaving the silver-bare peeking through the dark green cedars and firs&#8230;\u00a0 with bits of rosy-brown from willow branches in the riparian zones.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, the medlar brightens the living room, casting warm highlights on all the\u00a0 clothes that need folding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the first hard frost, if there were still leaves on the trees &#8212; the big-leaf maples, my medlar, the quince and others &#8212; they turn bright, lemon-yellow.\u00a0 And they seem to rejoice in this last burst of color before the trees begin their hibernation. Driving along on a day like today, when the sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}